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GIS Question?

You are creating a land cover data layer to use in QGIS. What are some of the considerations in deciding to use a raster or a vector data model?

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  • Jim
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Both have there place in GIS systems

    Raster images are useful as they provide a lot of detail that is hard to capture as vector features but easy to see when looking at the raster image.

    Raster data can also be non-photographic data such as the raster layer which shows the calculated average minimum temperature in the Western Cape for the month of March.

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